HeyJaredRamanan Laxminarayan
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The importance of teaching our students about failure (opens the original)
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When I was an engineering undergraduate at BITS Pilani, nearly 40 years ago, we lost three students in my cohort to suicide during college, and two more not too long after. Nearly 1% of our entire batch. These deaths seemed so difficult to understand at the time. The batchmates we lost were young people who had made it into one of India’s leading engineering institutions and were, by all societal standards, successful young people. Yet, for some of them, life became unbearable. I thought about t
GDP row is a fight over the donkey’s shadow (opens the original)
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The recent announcement about India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the last quarter has set up a furious debate about whether this is the right figure or has been fudged by moving the base year inappropriately. This reminds me of the Aesop’s fable in which a man hires a donkey and, during a hot journey, sits in the donkey’s shadow. The donkey’s owner objects that the hire was for the donkey, not for its shadow, and so he should be compensated for the shadow. But the traveller argues th
When cooperation became intelligence (opens the original)
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Seventy-four thousand years ago, the sky went dark. On the island of Sumatra, the supervolcano Toba erupted with a force that was beyond anything humans had previously known. The Earth’s atmosphere was filled with ash which blocked out the sun for years. Temperatures fell, and forests died. There had been no warning, and so there was no ability to plan for such a catastrophe. When animals disappeared and plants withered and died, food became harder to find. Genetic evidence suggests that human n
Why airport forms won’t keep Ebola out (opens the original)
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India has introduced a mandatory health declaration for all international air passengers as part of its response to the current outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola in parts of Africa. The form asks travellers to fill out personal details, seat numbers, symptoms, recent travel, and possible exposures. Although it appears to be a sensible precaution, whether it will meaningfully reduce the risk of a patient with Ebola entering India is unclear. Traveller questionnaires have long been part of the public h
HPV vaccination: The kryptonite for cervical cancer in India (opens the original)
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For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine given to schoolgirls nearly two decades earlier. A recent study in The Lancet, linking HPV vaccination records from 2008–18 with mortality data through 2024, found no cervical cancer deaths among women in the first cohorts offered the vaccine. Screening participation had actually declined in this generation, making vaccination the only plausible expla
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